This is still the cry of the same godly, consciously innocent sufferer, against the confederacy of mighty wicked ones, who, in infidel pride, despise the judgments of God. They are called “the heathen,” regarded as infidel, while God is all the hope of the poor afflicted one. The language may remind us of Psalm 2:1, and Joel 3:12. It is to be read as the cry of the suffering Remnant in the latter day against the confederacy. Signal judgment upon it is sought for (Psa. 59:11); as Jesus desires the same on His Jewish persecutors, in Psalm 69. And as the Jewish nation are at this present time under signal judgment, so will this Gentile confederacy be in the coming day of vengeance. (See Isa. 66:24.)
The disappointment of the enemy is strikingly conceived in Psalm 59:14-15, contrasted with their temporary advantage in Psalm 59:6. In their prosperity they belched through satiety, but now they grudge as unfed beasts.
The morning comes for the joy of the Remnant, after the evening rapine of these unclean ones has ended in their destruction (Psa. 59:16).
Messiah, to whom “the people” belong (Psa. 59:11) seems to lift up this cry for His Remnant against “all the heathen.” And His confidence in God is strongly expressed in the cry He utters, and in spite of the enemy’s strength and malice.